Ittiam Systems announced the availability of all hardware and software know-how for realising what is called a "High Definition Multi Format Video Decoder Engine" as a system-on-a-chip, which means a single slab of silicon.

The new system has been named "Trinity" because is able to handle all three current and competing standards for high definition video — MPEG-2, VC1 and H.264.

According Ittiam's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Srini Rajam:

The challenge was to squeeze all the associated electronics into smallest possible area — while giving our customers, the freedom to create a variety of devices be they HD TV sets, HD DVD players or interactive set-top boxes using the same basic chip.
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Trinity will enable DVD player-recorder manufacturers to turn out models for both competing disk types — Bluray and HD-DVD.

This new chip seems to me a very promising solution to the current Blu-ray vs HD-DVD war.

Whoever is interested can read the full article here.

Source: The Hindu